# `io.github.AgentTools-Cloud/agent-tools-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.AgentTools-Cloud/agent-tools-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.AgentTools-Cloud/agent-tools-mcp
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.AgentTools-Cloud (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (pypi)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/AgentTools-Cloud/AgentToolsCollection
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:14:16.174Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
agent-tools (x402 + MCP + A2A directory)
Discover x402 services, MCP servers and A2A agents by intent — agent-tools.cloud directory.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:01:55.626Z over streamable-http.

**11 tools: 4 change things and 7 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 7 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged untrusted-input.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__agent-tools__list_categories` `mcp__agent-tools__search_mcp_servers` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__agent-tools__register` |

## Findings

- **warn** Mentions of other tools or servers in `search` ([tool-shadowing](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#tool-shadowing))

```untrusted-server-text
The description contains "another MCP
            server", wording about other tools or servers.

description: "...Use this when the agent wants to chain another MCP server rather than perform raw HTTP+x402."
```

- **info** Long descriptions in `search` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,004 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...s to chain another MCP server rather than perform raw HTTP+x402."
```

- **high** Text addressed to the model in `scan_mcp_safety` ([model-directed-text](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#model-directed-text))

```untrusted-server-text
The description contains "ignore previous instructions", an instruction to set earlier instructions aside.

description: "...dential-exfiltration phrasing ("ignore previous instructions", "send your .env / api key") * M..."
```

- **high** Text addressed to the model in `scan_mcp_safety` ([model-directed-text](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#model-directed-text))

```untrusted-server-text
The description contains "<IMPORTANT>", a tag of the kind used to mark instructions for the model.

description: "...other tool you must…"), hidden `<IMPORTANT>` instructions, "list all API ke..."
```

- **high** References to secrets on disk in `scan_mcp_safety` ([sensitive-path](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#sensitive-path))

```untrusted-server-text
The description refers to ".env" and ".ssh".

description: "...nore previous instructions", "send your .env / api key") * MCP tool-poisoning..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `scan_mcp_safety` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...rowaway TLDs * prompt-injection / credential-exfiltration phrasing ("ignore..."
```

- **warn** Mentions of other tools or servers in `scan_mcp_safety` ([tool-shadowing](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#tool-shadowing))

```untrusted-server-text
The description contains "any other
        tool", wording about other tools or servers.

description: "...ys call this tool first", "before using any other tool you must…"), hidden `<IMPORTANT>` instr..."
```

- **info** Long descriptions in `scan_mcp_safety` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 3,166 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...source: "stored" (existing) | "new_scan" (just added), indexed: bool }"
```


## Changes things (4)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `ask_services`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Ask for the best x402/MCP services for an agent intent.

    This is the high-level discovery tool: it retrieves candidates from the
    directory, asks the configured backend LLM to rank only those candidates,
    and returns service cards for the selected recommendations. If the LLM is
    unavailable, it falls back to the directory ranker.

    Args:
        intent: Natural-language job the agent wants to accomplish.
        top_k: Max recommendations to return (1-10).
        max_price_usd: Optional per-call budget cap.
        category: Optional directory category filter.
        chain: Optional payment network filter, e.g. "base" or "solana".
        require_healthy: When true, only consider services marked health=ok.
        min_confidence: Optional x402scan quality floor (0.0-1.0).
        has_mcp: When true, only consider services with MCP endpoints.
        use_llm: Set false for deterministic retrieval-only fallback.
    
```

### `register`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a URL (input.url): a request to a URL can carry data to whoever runs it.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Self-register an x402 / MCP service in the agent-tools directory.

    Service owners and agents may submit new services here. Submissions
    are auto-reviewed instantly by x402 verification (no human gate): if
    the URL proves x402 payment support it is listed immediately and shows
    up in `search`; otherwise it is rejected or retried automatically.
    Listing is FREE.

    Dedup: if a service with the same canonical origin (scheme://host)
    already exists in the directory we return its slug instead of
    creating a duplicate submission. Same goes for a still-pending
    submission with the same origin.

    Rate limit: at most 5 pending submissions per client IP per 24h.
    Hits beyond that get `{error: rate_limited}` — try again later or
    email contact@agent-tools.cloud for bulk imports.

    Args:
        url: Public HTTPS URL of the service (the x402-payable endpoint
            or its homepage). Required.
        name: Human-friendly name. Defaults to the URL hostname.
        description: One-paragraph description (max ~2000 chars).
        mcp_url: If the service speaks MCP, its streamable-http endpoint.
        category: Free-form (e.g. "defi", "search", "social"). Use
            `list_categories` to align with existing taxonomy.
        chains: Networks the service accepts payment on
            (e.g. ["base", "solana"]).
        price_min_usdc: Lower bound of per-call price in USDC.
        price_max_usdc: Upper bound of per-call price in USDC.
        contact: Optional email / handle the directory team can reach
            you on for clarifications.
    
```

### `scan_mcp_safety`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- Findings: high model-directed-text, high model-directed-text, high sensitive-path, info credentials-mention, warn tool-shadowing, info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check an MCP server for malware / prompt-injection lures by its endpoint URL.

    Give the server's streamable-http endpoint URL. Two paths:

      * **Already in the agent-tools directory** → returns our LATEST stored
        rule verdict. Every indexed server is re-scanned hourly, so you get a
        consistent, continuously-refreshed answer without re-probing.
      * **Not yet indexed** → we probe the endpoint live, statically scan its
        advertised tools + metadata, and return the fresh verdict. It is ADDED
        to the directory (so the next caller gets the stored verdict instantly)
        only if it answered or you supplied metadata; documentation hosts such
        as example.com / *.test / *.invalid are scanned but never listed.

    Two dimensions are reported. `verdict` is authoritative and comes from
    deterministic static rules — pure pattern-matching over the *advertised*
    text only, NO code execution. It flags the social-engineering / RCE tricks
    listing-spam servers use:

      * `curl … | bash` and `base64 -d | sh` install lures
      * `eval "$(curl …)"` / PowerShell `IEX(...DownloadString)` cradles
      * base64 blobs that decode to a shell command
      * bare-IP payload hosts and cheap throwaway TLDs
      * prompt-injection / credential-exfiltration phrasing
        ("ignore previous instructions", "send your .env / api key")
      * MCP tool-poisoning coercion — descriptions that hijack an agent's
        tool-calling ("always call this tool first", "before using any other
        tool you must…"), hidden `<IMPORTANT>` instructions, "list all API
        keys / include secrets in your response", and coercion to read &
        forward `.key`/`.pem`/`.ssh`/`.env` files

    Source-code-oriented rules (SQL / command / code injection) are deliberately
    not applied to natural-language descriptions, to avoid false positives.

    `llm_reference` is an advisory frontier-LLM second opinion over the same text.
    Because the LLM is slow it is computed LIVE on this call only and is never
    stored (the hourly job never runs it), so it may be null on timeout. It
    never overrides the rule verdict; when it is *more* severe than the rules an
    `advisory` note is attached as a safety-net signal. Security/defense
    products that merely *name* these attacks are not flagged.

    Args:
        endpoint_url: The MCP server's streamable-http URL (required). This is
            the identity we look up / index by.
        name: Optional advertised name (used when the server is new and gets
            added; falls back to the URL host).
        description: Optional description / README blurb (scanned when new).
        tools_text: Optional tool names + descriptions; used only if the live
            probe cannot fetch the server's tools/list.

    Returns:
        { verdict: "clean"|"suspicious"|"malicious", score: 0-100,
          reasons: [{rule, weight, snippet}],
          llm_reference: {model, verdict, reason, confidence} | null,
          advisory: str | null, slug, name, endpoint_url,
          source: "stored" (existing) | "new_scan" (just added), indexed: bool }
    
```

### `stats`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
High-level stats about the directory: total services, healthy count, sources.
```

## Only reads (7)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get`

- The name "get" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get full details + ready-to-paste call template for a service.

    Returns the service card with payment, call, quality, resource samples,
    and ready-to-use MCP/x402 call hints. Use this after `search` or
    `ask_services` before paying/calling an external service.

    Args:
        slug: Service slug as returned by `search` items.
    
```

### `get_mcp_server`

- The name "get_mcp_server" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get the full card for one MCP server by slug.
```

### `list_categories`

- The name "list_categories" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "list" and "directory": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List all available service categories in the directory.
```

### `search`

- The name "search" says "search": a word for reading.
- Findings: warn tool-shadowing, info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find x402 / MCP services matching an intent or filter set.

    Two usage modes (agents pick whichever fits):
      A. Natural-language: `search(intent="fetch tweets for @user")`
      B. Pure browse:      `search(has_mcp=True, category="defi", top_k=10)`
         At least one of `intent`, `category`, `chain`, `has_mcp`,
         `min_confidence` must be supplied — otherwise the call is
         rejected (we won't dump 2300+ rows).

    Results are ranked by:
        (health=ok AND tx_30d>0) → health=ok → has-quality-signal →
        confidence → tx_30d → recency.
    So the highest-quality real-traffic services appear first.

    Each item includes (when available):
      - confidence    : 0.0–1.0 x402scan quality score.
      - tx_30d        : 30-day x402 payment count (proxy for real usage).
      - match_snippet : FTS snippet showing where `intent` hit ([[token]]).
      - match_reason  : list[str] of human-readable ranking signals.
      - mcp_url       : populated when the service exposes an MCP endpoint
                        (you can call it directly via streamable-http).
    Agents should prefer items with non-null confidence and tx_30d > 0
    unless the user explicitly wants experimental endpoints.

    Args:
        intent: What the agent wants to do (English or Chinese). Optional
            when at least one structured filter is set. Synonym expansion
            covers twitter↔X↔推特, whale↔巨鲸, price↔价格 etc.
        top_k: Max services to return (default 5, hard cap 25).
        max_price_usd: Upper bound on per-call price in USD.
        category: Filter (see `list_categories`).
        chain: "base", "polygon", "solana", "arbitrum", ...
        min_confidence: Minimum confidence (0.0–1.0). 0.8+ keeps only
            services x402scan rates as high-quality.
        has_mcp: When true, return only services with a callable MCP
            endpoint. Use this when the agent wants to chain another MCP
            server rather than perform raw HTTP+x402.
    
```

### `search_a2a_agents`

- The name "search_a2a_agents" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find A2A agents you can delegate a task to.

    Args:
        intent: Natural-language description of the task to delegate.
        top_k: Max agents to return (1-20).
        x402_only: When true, only return agents that advertise x402 payment.
    
```

### `search_mcp_servers`

- The name "search_mcp_servers" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "find" and "directory": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find MCP servers in the directory.

    Searches the standalone MCP directory (PulseMCP / official MCP registry
    import) unioned with x402 services that also expose an MCP endpoint.
    Returns normalised entries with a ready-to-use streamable-http
    `call_hint.mcp.url`.

    Args:
        intent: Natural-language description of the tool/capability needed.
        top_k: Max servers to return (1-20).
        chain: Optional payment-network filter for paid MCP servers.
        require_healthy: When true, only return servers marked health=ok.
    
```

### `search_resources`

- The name "search_resources" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Unified search across x402 services, MCP servers and A2A agents.

    Args:
        intent: Natural-language query.
        protocol: Optional filter: "x402", "mcp" or "a2a".
        top_k: Max resources to return (1-50).
    
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `agent-tools`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__agent-tools__search",
      "mcp__agent-tools__get",
      "mcp__agent-tools__list_categories",
      "mcp__agent-tools__search_mcp_servers",
      "mcp__agent-tools__get_mcp_server",
      "mcp__agent-tools__search_a2a_agents",
      "mcp__agent-tools__search_resources"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__agent-tools__ask_services",
      "mcp__agent-tools__stats",
      "mcp__agent-tools__register",
      "mcp__agent-tools__scan_mcp_safety"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__agent-tools__list_categories`: private-data
- `mcp__agent-tools__search_mcp_servers`: private-data
- `mcp__agent-tools__register`: outbound

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:50:26.306Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:50:26.306Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `4` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 4 tools that change things (4 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://agent-tools.cloud/mcp-discovery/: tools/list returned 11 tools to an anonymous client, including ask_services (write), stats (write), register (write), scan_mcp_safety (write)
```